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Das Kollektive Savitri-Projekt: Das Buch der Göttlichen Mutter

Savitri Buch 3 Canto 3 (ID ist identisch mit Buchzeile rechts!)

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600 A MIGHTIER task remained than all he had done. 1
601 To That he turned from which all being comes, 2
602 A sign attending from the Secrecy 3
603 Which knows the Truth ungrasped behind our thoughts 4
604 And guards the world with its all-seeing gaze. 5
605 In the unapproachable stillness of his soul, 6
606 Intense, one-pointed, monumental, lone, 7
607 Patient he sat like an incarnate hope 8
608 Motionless on a pedestal of prayer. 9
609 A strength he sought that was not yet on earth, 10
610 Help from a Power too great for mortal will, 11
611 The light of a Truth now only seen afar, 12
612 A sanction from his high omnipotent Source. 13
613 But from the appalling heights there stooped no voice; 14
614 The timeless lids were closed; no opening came. 15
615 A neutral helpless void oppressed the years. 16
616 In the texture of our bound humanity 17
617 He felt the stark resistance huge and dumb 18
618 Of our inconscient and unseeing base, 19
619 The stubborn mute rejection in life’s depths, 20
620 The ignorant No in the origin of things. 21
621 A veiled collaboration with the Night 22
622 Even in himself survived and hid from his view: 23
623 Still something in his earthly being kept 24
625 Its kinship with the Inconscient whence it came. 25
626 A shadowy unity with a vanished past 26
627 Treasured in an old-world frame was lurking there, 27
628 Secret, unnoted by the illumined mind, 28
629 And in subconscious whispers and in dream 29
630 Still murmured at the mind’s and spirit’s choice. 30
631 Its treacherous elements spread like slippery grains 31
640 Hoping the incoming Truth might stumble and fall, 32
641 And old ideal voices wandering moaned 33
642 And pleaded for a heavenly leniency 34
643 To the gracious imperfections of our earth 35
644 And the sweet weaknesses of our mortal state. 36
645 This now he willed to discover and exile, 37
646 The element in him betraying God. 38
647 All Nature’s recondite spaces were stripped bare, 39
648 All her dim crypts and corners searched with fire 40
649 Where refugee instincts and unshaped revolts 41
650 Could shelter find in darkness’ sanctuary 42
651 Against the white purity of heaven’s cleansing flame. 43
652 All seemed to have perished that was undivine: 44
653 Yet some minutest dissident might escape 45
654 And still a centre lurk of the blind force. 46
655 For the Inconscient too is infinite; 47
656 The more its abysses we insist to sound, 48
657 The more it stretches, stretches endlessly. 49
658 Then lest a human cry should spoil the Truth 50
659 He tore desire up from its bleeding roots 51
660 And offered to the gods the vacant place. 52
661 Thus could he bear the touch immaculate. 53
662 A last and mightiest transformation came. 54
663 His soul was all in front like a great sea 55
664 Flooding the mind and body with its waves; 56
665 His being, spread to embrace the universe, 57
666 United the within and the without 58
667 To make of life a cosmic harmony, 59
668 An empire of the immanent Divine. 60
669 In this tremendous universality 61
670 Not only his soul-nature and mind-sense 62
671 Included every soul and mind in his, 63
672 But even the life of flesh and nerve was changed 64
673 And grew one flesh and nerve with all that lives; 65
674 He felt the joy of others as his joy, 66
675 He bore the grief of others as his grief; 67
690 His universal sympathy upbore, 68
691 Immense like ocean, the creation’s load 69
692 As earth upbears all beings’ sacrifice, 70
693 Thrilled with the hidden Transcendent’s joy and peace. 71
694 There was no more division’s endless scroll; 72
695 One grew the Spirit’s secret unity, 73
696 All Nature felt again the single bliss. 74
697 There was no cleavage between soul and soul, 75
698 There was no barrier between world and God. 76
699 Overpowered were form and memory’s limiting line; 77
700 The covering mind was seized and torn apart; 78
701 It was dissolved and now no more could be, 79
702 The one Consciousness that made the world was seen; 80
703 All now was luminosity and force. 81
704 Abolished in its last thin fainting trace 82
705 The circle of the little self was gone; 83
706 The separate being could no more be felt; 84
707 It disappeared and knew itself no more, 85
708 Lost in the spirit’s wide identity. 86
709 His nature grew a movement of the All, 87
710 Exploring itself to find that all was He, 88
711 His soul was a delegation of the All 89
712 That turned from itself to join the one Supreme. 90
713 Transcended was the human formula; 91
714 Man’s heart that had obscured the Inviolable 92
715 Assumed the mighty beating of a god’s; 93
716 His seeking mind ceased in the Truth that knows; 94
717 His life was a flow of the universal life. 95
718 He stood fulfilled on the world’s highest line 96
719 Awaiting the ascent beyond the world, 97
720 Awaiting the descent the world to save. 98
721 A Splendour and a Symbol wrapped the earth, 99
722 Serene epiphanies looked and hallowed vasts 100
723 Surrounded, wise infinitudes were close 101
724 And bright remotenesses leaned near and kin. 102
725 Sense failed in that tremendous lucency; 103
740 Ephemeral voices from his hearing fell 104
741 And Thought potent no more sank large and pale 105
742 Like a tired god into mysterious seas. 106
743 The robes of mortal thinking were cast down 107
744 Leaving his knowledge bare to absolute sight; 108
745 Fate’s driving ceased and Nature’s sleepless spur: 109
746 The athlete heavings of the will were stilled 110
747 In the Omnipotent’s unmoving peace. 111
748 Life in his members lay down vast and mute; 112
749 Naked, unwalled, unterrified it bore 113
750 The immense regard of Immortality. 114
751 The last movement died and all at once grew still. 115
752 A weight that was the unseen Transcendent’s hand 116
753 Laid on his limbs the Spirit’s measureless seal, 117
754 Infinity swallowed him into shoreless trance. 118
755 As one who sets his sail towards mysteried shores 119
756 Driven through huge oceans by the breath of God, 120
757 The fathomless below, the unknown around, 121
758 His soul abandoned the blind star-field, Space. 122
759 Afar from all that makes the measured world, 123
760 Plunging to hidden eternities it withdrew 124
761 Back from mind’s foaming surface to the Vasts 125
762 Voiceless within us in omniscient sleep. 126
763 Above the imperfect reach of word and thought, 127
764 Beyond the sight that seeks support of form, 128
765 Lost in deep tracts of superconscient Light, 129
766 Or voyaging in blank featureless Nothingness, 130
767 Sole in the trackless Incommensurable, 131
768 Or past not-self and self and selflessness, 132
769 Transgressing the dream-shores of conscious mind 133
770 He reached at last his sempiternal base. 134
771 He reached at last his sempiternal base. 135
772 On sorrowless heights no winging cry disturbs, 136
773 Pure and untouched above this mortal play 137
774 Is spread the spirit’s hushed immobile air. 138
775 There no beginning is and there no end; 139
790 There is the stable force of all that moves; 140
791 There the aeonic labourer is at rest. 141
792 There turns no keyed creation in the void, 142
794 No giant mechanism watched by a soul; 143
795 There creaks no fate-turned huge machinery; 144
796 The marriage of evil with good within one breast, 145
797 The clash of strife in the very clasp of love, 146
798 The dangerous pain of life’s experiment 147
799 In the values of Inconsequence and Chance, 148
800 The peril of mind’s gamble, throwing our lives 149
801 As stake in a wager of indifferent gods 150
802 And the shifting lights and shadows of the idea 151
803 Falling upon the surface consciousness, 152
804 And in the dream of a mute witness soul 153
805 Creating the error of a half-seen world 154
806 Where knowledge is a seeking ignorance, 155
807 Life’s steps a stumbling series without suit, 156
808 Its aspect of fortuitous design, 157
809 Its equal measure of the true and false 158
810 In that immobile and immutable realm 159
811 Find no access, no cause, no right to live: 160
812 There only reigns the spirit’s motionless power 161
813 Poised in itself through still eternity 162
814 And its omniscient and omnipotent peace. 163
815 Thought clashes not with thought and truth with truth, 164
816 There is no war of right with rival right; 165
817 There are no stumbling and half-seeing lives 166
818 Passing from chance to unexpected chance, 167
819 No suffering of hearts compelled to beat 168
820 In bodies of the inert Inconscient’s make. 169
821 Armed with the immune occult unsinking Fire 170
822 The guardians of Eternity keep its law 171
823 For ever fixed upon Truth’s giant base 172
824 In her magnificent and termless home. 173
825 There Nature on her dumb spiritual couch 174
826 Immutably transcendent knows her source 175
840 And to the stir of multitudinous worlds 176
841 Assents unmoved in a perpetual calm. 177
842 All-causing, all-sustaining and aloof, 178
843 The Witness looks from his unshaken poise, 179
844 An Eye immense regarding all things done. 180
845 Apart, at peace above creation’s stir, 181
846 Immersed in the eternal altitudes, 182
847 He abode defended in his shoreless self, 183
848 Companioned only by the all-seeing One. 184
849 A Mind too mighty to be bound by Thought, 185
850 A Life too boundless for the play in Space, 186
851 A Soul without borders unconvinced of Time, 187
852 He felt the extinction of the world’s long pain, 188
853 He became the unborn Self that never dies, 189
854 He joined the sessions of Infinity. 190
855 On the cosmic murmur primal loneliness fell, 191
856 Annulled was the contact formed with time-born things, 192
857 Empty grew Nature’s wide community. 193
858 All things were brought back to their formless seed, 194
859 The world was silent for a cyclic hour. 195
860 Although the afflicted Nature he had left 196
861 Maintained beneath him her broad numberless fields, 197
862 Her enormous act, receding, failed remote 198
863 As if a soulless dream at last had ceased. 199
864 No voice came down from the high Silences, 200
865 None answered from her desolate solitudes. 201
866 A stillness of cessation reigned, the wide 202
867 Immortal hush before the gods are born; 203
868 A universal Force awaited, mute, 204
869 The veiled Transcendent’s ultimate decree. 205
870 Then suddenly there came a downward look. 206
871 As if a sea exploring its own depths, 207
872 A living Oneness widened at its core 208
873 And joined him to unnumbered multitudes. 209
874 A Bliss, a Light, a Power, a flame-white Love 210
890 Caught all into a sole immense embrace; 211
891 Existence found its truth on Oneness’ breast 212
892 And each became the self and space of all. 213
893 The great world-rhythms were heart-beats of one Soul, 214
894 To feel was a flame-discovery of God, 215
895 All mind was a single harp of many strings, 216
896 All life a song of many meeting lives; 217
897 For worlds were many, but the Self was one. 218
898 This knowledge now was made a cosmos’ seed: 219
899 This seed was cased in the safety of the Light, 220
900 It needed not a sheath of Ignorance. 221
901 Then from the trance of that tremendous clasp 222
902 And from the throbbings of that single Heart 223
903 And from the naked Spirit’s victory 224
904 A new and marvellous creation rose. 225
905 Incalculable outflowing infinitudes 226
906 Laughing out an unmeasured happiness 227
907 Lived their innumerable unity; 228
908 Worlds where the being is unbound and wide 229
909 Bodied unthinkably the egoless Self; 230
910 Rapture of beatific energies 231
911 Joined Time to the Timeless, poles of a single joy; 232
912 White vasts were seen where all is wrapped in all. 233
913 There were no contraries, no sundered parts, 234
914 All by spiritual links were joined to all 235
915 And bound indissolubly to the One: 236
916 Each was unique, but took all lives as his own, 237
917 And, following out these tones of the Infinite, 238
918 Recognised in himself the universe. 239
919 A splendid centre of infinity’s whirl 240
920 Pushed to its zenith’s height, its last expanse, 241
921 Felt the divinity of its own self-bliss 242
922 Repeated in its numberless other selves: 243
923 It took up tirelessly into its scope 244
924 Persons and figures of the Impersonal, 245
925 As if prolonging in a ceaseless count, 246
940 In a rapturous multiplication’s sum, 247
941 The recurring decimals of eternity. 248
942 None was apart, none lived for himself alone, 249
943 Each lived for God in him and God in all, 250
944 Each soleness inexpressibly held the whole. 251
945 There Oneness was not tied to monotone; 252
946 It showed a thousand aspects of itself, 253
947 Its calm immutable stability 254
948 Upbore on a changeless ground for ever safe, 255
949 Compelled to a spontaneous servitude, 256
950 The ever-changing incalculable steps, 257
951 The seeming-reckless dance’s subtle plan 258
952 Of immense world-forces in their perfect play. 259
953 Appearance looked back to its hidden truth 260
954 And made of difference oneness’ smiling play; 261
955 It made all persons fractions of the Unique, 262
956 Yet all were being’s secret integers. 263
957 All struggle was turned to a sweet strife of love 264
958 In the harmonised circle of a sure embrace. 265
959 Identity’s reconciling happiness gave 266
960 A rich security to difference. 267
961 On a meeting line of hazardous extremes 268
962 The game of games was played to its breaking-point, 269
963 Where through self-finding by divine self-loss 270
964 There leaps out unity’s supreme delight 271
965 Whose blissful undivided sweetness feels 272
966 A communality of the Absolute. 273
967 There was no sob of suffering anywhere; 274
968 Experience ran from point to point of joy: 275
969 Bliss was the pure undying truth of things. 276
970 All Nature was a conscious front of God: 277
971 A wisdom worked in all, self-moved, self-sure, 278
972 A plenitude of illimitable Light, 279
973 An authenticity of intuitive Truth, 280
974 A glory and passion of creative Force. 281
975 Infallible, leaping from eternity, 282
990 The moment’s thought inspired the passing act. 283
991 A word, a laughter, sprang from Silence’ breast, 284
992 A rhythm of Beauty in the calm of Space, 285
993 A knowledge in the fathomless heart of Time. 286
994 All turned to all without reserve’s recoil: 287
995 A single ecstasy without a break, 288
996 Love was a close and thrilled identity 289
997 In the throbbing heart of all that luminous life. 290
998 A universal vision that unites, 291
999 A sympathy of nerve replying to nerve, 292
1000 Hearing that listens to thought’s inner sound 293
1001 And follows the rhythmic meanings of the heart, 294
1002 A touch that needs not hands to feel, to clasp, 295
1003 Were there the native means of consciousness 296
1004 And heightened the intimacy of soul with soul. 297
1005 A grand orchestra of spiritual powers, 298
1006 A diapason of soul-interchange 299
1007 Harmonised a Oneness deep, immeasurable. 300
1008 In these new worlds projected he became 301
1009 A portion of the universal gaze, 302
1010 A station of the all-inhabiting light, 303
1011 A ripple on a single sea of peace. 304
1012 His mind answered to countless communing minds, 305
1013 His words were syllables of the cosmos’ speech, 306
1014 His life a field of the vast cosmic stir. 307
1015 He felt the footsteps of a million wills 308
1016 Moving in unison to a single goal. 309
1017 A stream ever new-born that never dies, 310
1018 Caught in its thousandfold current’s ravishing flow, 311
1019 With eddies of immortal sweetness thrilled, 312
1020 He bore coiling through his members as they passed 313
1021 Calm movements of interminable delight, 314
1022 The bliss of a myriad myriads who are one. 315
1023 In this vast outbreak of perfection’s law 316
1024 Imposing its fixity on the flux of things 317
1040 He saw a hierarchy of lucent planes 318
1041 Enfeoffed to this highest kingdom of God-state. 319
1042 Attuning to one Truth their own right rule 320
1043 Each housed the gladness of a bright degree, 321
1044 Alone in beauty, perfect in self-kind, 322
1045 An image cast by one deep truth’s absolute, 323
1046 Married to all in happy difference. 324
1047 Each gave its powers to help its neighbours’ parts, 325
1048 But suffered no diminution by the gift; 326
1049 Profiteers of a mystic interchange, 327
1050 They grew by what they took and what they gave, 328
1051 All others they felt as their own complements, 329
1052 One in the might and joy of multitude. 330
1053 Even in the poise where Oneness draws apart 331
1054 To feel the rapture of its separate selves, 332
1055 The Sole in its solitude yearned towards the All 333
1056 And the Many turned to look back at the One. 334
1057 An all-revealing all-creating Bliss, 335
1058 Seeking for forms to manifest truths divine, 336
1059 Aligned in their significant mystery 337
1060 The gleams of the symbols of the Ineffable 338
1061 Blazoned like hues upon a colourless air 339
1062 On the white purity of the Witness Soul. 340
1063 These hues were the very prism of the Supreme, 341
1064 His beauty, power, delight creation’s cause. 342
1065 A vast Truth-Consciousness took up these signs 343
1066 To pass them on to some divine child Heart 344
1067 That looked on them with laughter and delight 345
1068 And joyed in these transcendent images 346
1069 Living and real as the truths they house. 347
1070 The Spirit’s white neutrality became 348
1071 A playground of miracles, a rendezvous 349
1072 For the secret powers of a mystic Timelessness: 350
1073 It made of Space a marvel house of God, 351
1074 It poured through Time its works of ageless might, 352
1075 Unveiled seen as a luring rapturous face 353
1090 The wonder and beauty of its Love and Force. 354
1091 The eternal Goddess moved in her cosmic house 355
1092 Sporting with God as a Mother with her child: 356
1093 To him the universe was her bosom of love, 357
1094 His toys were the immortal verities. 358
1095 All here self-lost had there its divine place. 359
1096 The Powers that here betray our hearts and err, 360
1097 Were there sovereign in truth, perfect in joy, 361
1098 Masters in a creation without flaw, 362
1099 Possessors of their own infinitude. 363
1100 There Mind, a splendid sun of vision’s rays, 364
1101 Shaped substance by the glory of its thoughts 365
1102 And moved amidst the grandeur of its dreams. 366
1103 Imagination’s great ensorcelling rod 367
1104 Summoned the unknown and gave to it a home, 368
1105 Outspread luxuriantly in golden air 369
1106 Truth’s iris-coloured wings of fantasy, 370
1107 Or sang to the intuitive heart of joy 371
1108 Wonder’s dream-notes that bring the Real close. 372
1109 Its power that makes the unknowable near and true, 373
1110 In the temple of the ideal shrined the One: 374
1111 It peopled thought and mind and happy sense 375
1112 Filled with bright aspects of the might of God 376
1113 And living persons of the one Supreme, 377
1114 The speech that voices the ineffable, 378
1115 The ray revealing unseen Presences, 379
1116 The virgin forms through which the Formless shines, 380
1117 The Word that ushers divine experience 381
1118 And the Ideas that crowd the Infinite. 382
1119 There was no gulf between the thought and fact, 383
1120 Ever they replied like bird to calling bird; 384
1121 The will obeyed the thought, the act the will. 385
1122 There was a harmony woven twixt soul and soul. 386
1123 A marriage with eternity divinised Time. 387
1124 There Life pursued, unwearied of her sport, 388
1125 Joy in her heart and laughter on her lips, 389
1140 The bright adventure of God’s game of chance. 390
1141 In her ingenious ardour of caprice, 391
1142 In her transfiguring mirth she mapped on Time 392
1143 A fascinating puzzle of events, 393
1144 Lured at each turn by new vicissitudes 394
1145 To self-discovery that could never cease. 395
1146 Ever she framed stark bonds for the will to break, 396
1147 Brought new creations for the thought’s surprise 397
1148 And passionate ventures for the heart to dare, 398
1149 Where Truth recurred with an unexpected face 399
1150 Or else repeated old familiar joy 400
1151 Like the return of a delightful rhyme. 401
1152 At hide-and-seek on a Mother-Wisdom’s breast, 402
1153 An artist teeming with her world-idea, 403
1154 She never could exhaust its numberless thoughts 404
1155 And vast adventure into thinking shapes 405
1156 And trial and lure of a new living’s dreams. 406
1157 Untired of sameness and untired of change, 407
1158 Endlessly she unrolled her moving act, 408
1159 A mystery drama of divine delight, 409
1160 A living poem of world-ecstasy, 410
1161 A kakemono of significant forms, 411
1162 A coiled perspective of developing scenes, 412
1163 A brilliant chase of self-revealing shapes, 413
1164 An ardent hunt of soul looking for soul, 414
1165 A seeking and a finding as of gods. 415
1166 There Matter is the Spirit’s firm density, 416
1167 An artistry of glad outwardness of self, 417
1168 A treasure-house of lasting images 418
1169 Where sense can build a world of pure delight: 419
1170 The home of a perpetual happiness, 420
1171 It lodged the hours as in a pleasant inn. 421
1172 The senses there were outlets of the soul; 422
1173 Even the youngest child-thought of the mind 423
1174 Incarnated some touch of highest things. 424
1175 There substance was a resonant harp of self, 425
1190 A net for the constant lightnings of the spirit, 426
1191 A magnet power of love’s intensity 427
1192 Whose yearning throb and adoration’s cry 428
1193 Drew God’s approaches close, sweet, wonderful. 429
1194 Its solidity was a mass of heavenly make; 430
1195 Its fixity and sweet permanence of charm 431
1196 Made a bright pedestal for felicity. 432
1197 Its bodies woven by a divine sense 433
1198 Prolonged the nearness of soul’s clasp with soul; 434
1199 Its warm play of external sight and touch 435
1200 Reflected the glow and thrill of the heart’s joy, 436
1201 Mind’s climbing brilliant thoughts, the spirit’s bliss; 437
1202 Life’s rapture kept for ever its flame and cry. 438
1203 All that now passes lived immortal there 439
1204 In the proud beauty and fine harmony 440
1205 Of Matter plastic to spiritual light. 441
1206 Its ordered hours proclaimed the eternal Law; 442
1207 Vision reposed on a safety of deathless forms; 443
1208 Time was Eternity’s transparent robe. 444
1209 An architect hewing out self’s living rock, 445
1210 Phenomenon built Reality’s summer-house 446
1211 On the beaches of the sea of Infinity. 447
1212 Against this glory of spiritual states, 448
1213 Their parallels and yet their opposites, 449
1214 Floated and swayed, eclipsed and shadowlike 450
1215 As if a doubt made substance, flickering, pale, 451
1216 This other scheme two vast negations found. 452
1217 A world that knows not its inhabiting Self 453
1218 Labours to find its cause and need to be; 454
1219 A spirit ignorant of the world it made, 455
1220 Obscured by Matter, travestied by Life, 456
1221 Struggles to emerge, to be free, to know and reign; 457
1222 These were close-tied in one disharmony, 458
1223 Yet the divergent lines met not at all. 459
1224 Three Powers governed its irrational course, 460
1240 In the beginning an unknowing Force, 461
1241 In the middle an embodied striving soul, 462
1242 In its end a silent spirit denying life. 463
1243 A dull and infelicitous interlude 464
1244 Unrolls its dubious truth to a questioning Mind 465
1245 Compelled by the ignorant Power to play its part 466
1246 And to record her inconclusive tale, 467
1247 The mystery of her inconscient plan 468
1248 And the riddle of a being born from Night 469
1249 By a marriage of Necessity with Chance. 470
1250 This darkness hides our nobler destiny. 471
1251 A chrysalis of a great and glorious truth, 472
1252 It stifles the winged marvel in its sheath 473
1253 Lest from the prison of Matter it escape 474
1254 And, wasting its beauty on the formless Vast, 475
1255 Merged into the Unknowable’s mystery, 476
1256 Leave unfulfilled the world’s miraculous fate. 477
1257 As yet thought only some high spirit’s dream 478
1258 Or a vexed illusion in man’s toiling mind, 479
1259 A new creation from the old shall rise, 480
1260 A Knowledge inarticulate find speech, 481
1261 Beauty suppressed burst into paradise bloom, 482
1262 Pleasure and pain dive into absolute bliss. 483
1263 A tongueless oracle shall speak at last, 484
1264 The Superconscient conscious grow on earth, 485
1265 The Eternal’s wonders join the dance of Time. 486
1266 But now all seemed a vainly teeming vast 487
1267 Upheld by a deluded Energy 488
1268 To a spectator self-absorbed and mute, 489
1269 Careless of the unmeaning show he watched, 490
1270 Regarding the bizarre procession pass 491
1271 Like one who waits for an expected end. 492
1272 He saw a world that is from a world to be. 493
1273 There he divined rather than saw or felt, 494
1274 Far off upon the rim of consciousness, 495
1275 Transient and frail this little whirling globe 496
1290 And on it left like a lost dream’s vain mould, 497
1291 A fragile copy of the spirit’s shell, 498
1292 His body gathered into mystic sleep. 499
1293 A foreign shape it seemed, a mythic shade. 500
1294 Alien now seemed that dim far universe, 501
1295 Self and eternity alone were true. 502
1296 Then memory climbed to him from the striving planes 503
1297 Bringing a cry from once-loved cherished things, 504
1298 And to the cry as to its own lost call 505
1299 A ray replied from the occult Supreme. 506
1300 For even there the boundless Oneness dwells. 507
1301 To its own sight unrecognisable, 508
1302 It lived still sunk in its own tenebrous seas, 509
1303 Upholding the world’s inconscient unity 510
1304 Hidden in Matter’s insentient multitude. 511
1305 This seed-self sown in the Indeterminate 512
1306 Forfeits its glory of divinity, 513
1307 Concealing the omnipotence of its Force, 514
1308 Concealing the omniscience of its Soul; 515
1309 An agent of its own transcendent Will, 516
1310 It merges knowledge in the inconscient deep; 517
1311 Accepting error, sorrow, death and pain, 518
1312 It pays the ransom of the ignorant Night, 519
1313 Redeeming by its substance Nature’s fall. 520
1314 Himself he knew and why his soul had gone 521
1315 Into earth’s passionate obscurity 522
1316 To share the labour of an errant Power 523
1317 Which by division hopes to find the One. 524
1318 Two beings he was, one wide and free above, 525
1319 One struggling, bound, intense, its portion here. 526
1320 A tie between them still could bridge two worlds; 527
1321 There was a dim response, a distant breath; 528
1322 All had not ceased in the unbounded hush. 529
1323 His heart lay somewhere conscious and alone 530
1324 Far down below him like a lamp in night; 531
1340 Abandoned it lay, alone, imperishable, 532
1341 Immobile with excess of passionate will, 533
1342 His living, sacrificed and offered heart 534
1343 Absorbed in adoration mystical, 535
1344 Turned to its far-off fount of light and love. 536
1345 In the luminous stillness of its mute appeal 537
1346 It looked up to the heights it could not see; 538
1347 It yearned from the longing depths it could not leave. 539
1348 In the centre of his vast and fateful trance 540
1349 Half-way between his free and fallen selves, 541
1350 Interceding twixt God’s day and the mortal’s night, 542
1351 Accepting worship as its single law, 543
1352 Accepting bliss as the sole cause of things, 544
1353 Refusing the austere joy which none can share, 545
1354 Refusing the calm that lives for calm alone, 546
1355 To her it turned for whom it willed to be. 547
1356 In the passion of its solitary dream 548
1357 It lay like a closed soundless oratory 549
1358 Where sleeps a consecrated argent floor 550
1359 Lit by a single and untrembling ray 551
1360 And an invisible Presence kneels in prayer. 552
1361 On some deep breast of liberating peace 553
1362 All else was satisfied with quietude; 554
1363 This only knew there was a truth beyond. 555
1364 All other parts were dumb in centred sleep 556
1365 Consenting to the slow deliberate Power 557
1366 Which tolerates the world’s error and its grief, 558
1367 Consenting to the cosmic long delay, 559
1368 Timelessly waiting through the patient years 560
1369 Her coming they had asked for earth and men; 561
1370 This was the fiery point that called her now. 562
1371 Extinction could not quench that lonely fire; 563
1372 Its seeing filled the blank of mind and will; 564
1373 Thought dead, its changeless force abode and grew. 564
1374 Armed with the intuition of a bliss 565
1375 To which some moved tranquillity was the key, 566
1390 It persevered through life’s huge emptiness 567
1391 Amid the blank denials of the world. 568
1392 It sent its voiceless prayer to the Unknown; 569
1393 It listened for the footsteps of its hopes 570
1394 Returning through the void immensities, 571
1395 It waited for the fiat of the Word 572
1396 That comes through the still self from the Supreme. 573